"But the group behind Mr. Summers does not give up easily. Composed of protégés of Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary who was a leader at Citigroup as that institution careened toward its serial bailouts, some of Mr. Summers’s supporters are now pushing the notion that neither Mr. Summers nor Ms. Yellen should get the top Fed job. The idea is that the supposed rivalry between them — fanned by Mr. Summers’s supporters — has consumed both of them, requiring a third candidate."

The Daily Ticker's Henry Blodget says of Summers: "I was very surprised that suddenly he surged to the forefront, basically the only thing I could come up with is he seems to be friends with Obama... he is embedded in this group that has basically been running the United States financial architecture for two decades now."

Aaron Task agrees, "[Summers] is friendly with the president or the president likes him, has an affinity for him, is the only reason that anybody I have talked to has said well that's why he might get the job."